Emerging Materials Congress 2018

We welcome every single member of the sphere to attend “Emerging Materials Congress 2018” which is the “16th International conference on Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology” is slated to be on March 22-23 in London, UK which comprises prompt keynote presentations, Oral talks, Poster presentations and Exhibitions.

Join us for two intensive and interesting days of discussion on contemporary Materials research. We invite you to contribute and help to shape the Emerging Materials Congress through submission of your research abstracts, papers and e-posters.

Materials are the basis for the functionality of the built environment that triggers the development of new products and technologies. Material science is an interdisciplinary field involves the discovery and design of new materials in the areas of science and technology by integrating the elements of physics, chemistry and engineering. The arena has extended to comprise every class of materials that embraces metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors, biomaterials, medical implants and nanomaterials.

Why London, UK

London, being the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, is the densely inhabited region, urban zone and metropolitan area in the United Kingdom. Nearby the River Thames, London has been a foremost reimbursement for two millennia, and it is found by the Romans, who termed it as Londinium. London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is one of the world’s leading financial centers and has the fifth-or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world depending on measurement. London is a world cultural capital. It is the world’s most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the world’s largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic. London’s 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. London became the foremost city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games thrice by the year 2012.

London has a varied range of societies and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken within its boundaries. It is a chief center of higher education and research and its 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. London contains four World Heritage Sites: The Tower of London; Kew Gardens; the site comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret’s Church; and the historic settlement of Greenwich. Other renowned landmarks consist of Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Paul’s Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. London has abundant museums, galleries, libraries, sporting events and other cultural institutions, along with the eminent British Museum, National Gallery, British Library and 40 West End theatres.

Material science and engineering is an interdisciplinary field of science and engineering incorporating wide range of natural and man-made materials that relates the extraction, structure, synthesis, properties, characterization, performance and material processing. The engineering of materials has advancement in healthcare industries, medical device, electronics and photonics, energy industries, batteries, fuel cells, transportation, and nanotechnology. Material science and engineering aims at developing materials at the nano, micro and macro scales and involves several subjects such as biomaterials, structural materials, chemical and electrochemical materials science, computational materials science. The advances in materials leads to new revolutions in every discipline of engineering. Material scientist and engineers can develop new materials with enhanced performance by modifying the surface properties.

Materials are used in devices because of their unique properties such as electrical, magnetic, thermal, optical, mechanical and piezoelectric properties. The widely used material components are polymers, semiconductors, oxides and liquid crystals. The electronic materials are the principal elements in numerous device application and has its usage in daily electronic tools such as computers, mobile phones, LED bulbs and GPS devices. New materials and devices are designed to improve the optical, electronic, thermal and chemical performance of the existing devices. The present strategies of developing electronic materials and devices involves the synthesis and fabrication of materials with desired properties.

Energy storage is the capture of energy produced at one time for use later. A device that stores energy is sometimes called an accumulator. Energy comes in multiple forms including radiation, chemical, gravitational potential, electrical potential, electricity, elevated temperature, latent heat and kinetic. Energy storage encompasses converting energy from forms that are hard for storage to more conveniently or economically storable forms. Bulk energy storage is dominated by pumped hydro, which accounts for 99% of global energy storage. Efficient energy storage is one of the key points to be solved for a successful development of renewable energies. In addition, the increasing demand for energy sources to power various portable equipment for microelectronics, safety, medical applications, army, smart phones, telecommunications, tools, etc.

Advances in health care, energy, computing and numerous other fields depend on new findings in materials science. Next-generation materials include superomniphobic materials which are inspired by water bugs, super-light materials and active materials that react to changes in their environment and smart materials. Auxetic materials when stretched convert into a thicker perpendicular to the applied force that arises due to their hinge-like structures. Auxetics are useful in applications such as body armour, packing material, robust shock absorbing material, and sponge mops, knee and elbow pads. Thermally activated bimetals (Thermo-bimetals) allow for panes of glass capable of becoming shades when exposed to the sun. Smart materials are designed materials having one or more properties that can be significantly changed in a controlled fashion by external stimuli, such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH, electric or magnetic fields.

Nanomaterials are physical substances or materials with a typical dimension between 1-150nm which are the building blocks of applied nanotechnology. The properties of nanomaterials differ from those of bulk materials having unique optical, electronic and mechanical properties. Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are designed and produced with novel physico-chemical properties for a specific application from minerals and other chemical substance. Nanomaterial research is a material science based approach to nanotechnology which has its application in healthcare, electronics, cosmetics, optics, catalysis, pharmaceutics, energy conservation and other fields.

As the global demand for energy is increasing on a higher frequency, materials are the key aspects of new technologies for renewable energy sources, supercapacitors, energy storage in batteries, thermoelectric devices, energy conversion through solar cells and fuel cells. The dynamic research areas comprise clean energy conversion, biofuels, hydrogen generation and fuel cells. Materials for energy can help to produce efficient sources of energy to meet the present concerns and is a key driver for our society.

Material science plays a significant role in metallurgy. Powder metallurgy is a term that covers varied methodologies in which materials or components are made from metal powders. The metal removal processes can be avoided to decrease the costs. Pyro metallurgy embraces thermal treatment of minerals and metallurgical ores and concentrates to bring about physical and chemical transformations in the materials to allow retrieval of valued metals. A broad data of metallurgy can support us to extract the metal in a more possible manner. The extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth is called as Mining and Metallurgy is the field of Materials Science that deals with physical and chemical nature of the metallic & intermetallic compounds and alloys. Diverse methods and skills used in the extraction and production of various metals are extraction of metals from ores, purification; Metal casting Technology, plating, spraying, etc. in the series of processes, the metal is subjected to thermogenic and cryogenic conditions to analyses the corrosion, strength & toughness of the metal.

Biomaterial is defined as a substance that has been engineered to interact with components of living system for both therapeutic and diagnostic purpose. Biomaterials are natural components or it can be synthesized in the laboratory employing metals, ceramics, polymers and composite materials. Biomaterials covers the fundamentals of medicine, biology, chemistry, tissue engineering and materials science. The biomaterial science also includes polymer synthesis, drug design, self-assembly of materials, immunology and toxicology. Biomaterials has its wide usage in drug delivery, dental application, surgery and regenerative medicine that mimics the natural function. The current research focuses on combining biomedical science and material engineering to produce bioactive materials for numerous medical application.

Emerging technologies are categorized by fundamental novelty, comparatively fast growth, consistency, prominent impact and ambiguity. Characterization refers to the broad and general process by which a material's structure and properties are probed and measured. It is a fundamental process in the field of materials science, without which no scientific understanding of engineering materials could be determined. The scope of the term often varies; some limit them to techniques which study the microscopic structure and properties of materials, while others use the term to refer to any materials analysis process including macroscopic techniques such as mechanical testing, thermal analysis and density calculation. The scale of the structures observed in materials characterization ranges from angstroms, such as in the imaging of individual atoms and chemical bonds, up to centimeters, such as in the imaging of coarse grain structures in metals.

Polymer technology is one of the most popular area of current research as it involves the study and application of nanoscience to polymer-nanoparticle matrices, where nanoparticles are those with at least in measurement of less than 100 nm. Polymer nanotechnology focuses on polymer based biomaterials, self- assembled polymeric films, nanofabrication of polymers, polymer blends and nanocomposites. Polymer matrix based nanocomposites consist of polymer or copolymer having nanoparticles dispersed in the matrix. Silicon Nano spheres is the widely recognized Nano polymer that shows distinct characteristics and harder than silicon. Prior to the age of nanotechnology phase, polymer blends, block copolymer domain often achieves Nano scale dimensions. Nano-sized silica particles, zeolites and nanoparticle fillers has controlled the growth of products with improved properties such as thermal stability & conductivity, chemical resistance and tensile strength.

Materials that can be magnetized and attracted to a magnet are called ferromagnetic materials. These include iron, nickel, cobalt, some alloys of rare earth metals, and some naturally occurring minerals such as lodestone. Magnetic Smart Materials also have medical applications and it is projected that they will upsurge in the future. Examples are carrying medications to exact locations within the body and the use as a contrasting agent for MRI scans, assessing the risk of organ damage in hereditary hemochromatosis, determining the dose of iron chelator drugs required for patients with thalassemia, and Now-a-days Scientists are also working on the progress of synthetic magnetic particles that can be injected into the human body for the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Spintronic, also known as spin electronics or fluxtronics, is the study of the intrinsic spin of the electron and its associated magnetic moment, in addition to its essential electronic charge, in solid-state devices.

Materials science is a syncretic discipline hybridizing metallurgy, ceramics, solid-state physics, and chemistry. The interdisciplinary field of materials science also commonly termed materials science and engineering, interrelates the structure, properties and performance of materials. The roots of materials science emerge from the analytical thinking of researches in chemistry, physics and engineering. Most of the scientific problems humans presently face is due to the limits of the materials that are available. Thus, breakthroughs in materials science are likely to affect the future of technology significantly.

Materials science research, signifies a new category of materials with its own logic of effect that cannot be described simply in terms of the usual categories of heavy and light or form, construction, and surface. The materials like Salmon leather, Wood-Skin flexible wood panel material, Re Wall Naked board, Coe Lux lighting system, Bling Crete light-reflecting concrete and many other new novelties have created astonishing and unique characteristics of the materials. Coelux lightening system where the scientists used a thin coating of nanoparticles to precisely simulate sunlight through Earth’s atmosphere and the effect known as Rayleigh scattering. Soft materials are another emerging class of materials that includes gels, colloids, liquids, foams, and coatings.

Materials make up the current world around us, from the concrete in buildings and bridges to the advanced carbon fibres and ceramics in high-performance cars and even to the nanoparticles in self-cleaning bricks. Materials research is altering based on the design, build and new products. The practice of materials in industrial sector includes areas of mining, transport, chemical, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, aeronautical, food and medical. The current and future needs of human can be satisfied by industries in achieving the desired purpose on goods. The main materials produced by industries are metals, inorganic nonmetals and plastics.

The 16th International Conference on Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology is the platform to gain or share the knowledge in the new technological developments in the field of science, engineering and technology. This conference brings together professors, researchers, scientists, students in all the areas of material science, engineering and nanotechnology and offers an international forum for the spreading of approved research. We are honored to invite you all to attend and register for the “16th International Conference on Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology (Emerging materials congress 2018)” which is scheduled for March 22-23, 2018 in London, UK.

The organizing committee is arranging for an exciting and enlightening conference program that includes plenary lectures, symposia, workshops on a variety of topics, poster presentations and various programs for participants from all over the world. We invite you to join us at 16th International Conference on Emerging Materials and Nanotechnology, where you will be sure of having an eloquent experience with scholars from around the world. All members of the Emerging materials congress 2018 organizing committee look forward to meeting you in London, UK.

Importance & scope:

The Material research encompasses the fundamental studies of materials structure - property relationships for the current and future importance in the field of science and engineering. The growth of materials in industrial application was enhanced by the establishment of academic programs and research institutes around the globe.

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) was established primarily since Nano science and technology are predicted to have an enormous potential economic impact. It is strongly believed that combined impact of industrial and information technology may approach the magnitude of change that could result from commercialization of material nanotechnology.

The emphasis on the processing of new materials facilitates its applications to the next generation of engineers and its high marketability has a great impact on the economy. In the new decade, the sustainability and influence on the environment lie in the core of the material development.

Why London?

London, being the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, is the densely inhabited region, urban zone and metropolitan area in the United Kingdom. Nearby the River Thames, London has been a foremost reimbursement for two millennia, and it is found by the Romans, who termed it as Londinium. London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is one of the world’s leading financial centers and has the fifth-or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world depending on measurement. London is a world cultural capital. It is the world’s most-visited city as measured by international arrivals and has the world’s largest city airport system measured by passenger traffic. London’s 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. London became the foremost city to host the modern Summer Olympic Games thrice by the year 2012.

London has a varied range of societies and cultures, and more than 300 languages are spoken within its boundaries. It is a chief center of higher education and research and its 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education in Europe. London contains four World Heritage Sites: The Tower of London; Kew Gardens; the site comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westminster Abbey, and St Margaret’s Church; and the historic settlement of Greenwich. Other renowned landmarks consist of Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, St Paul’s Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, and The Shard. London has abundant museums, galleries, libraries, sporting events and other cultural institutions, along with the eminent British Museum, National Gallery, British Library and 40 West End theatres.

Why to attend?

Emerging materials congress 2018 provides a striking opportunity to meet and make new contacts that link us with delegates who are active in the field of material science, engineering and nanotechnology. It offers comprehensive sessions on recent strategies and advances in the development of new materials. Networking enables sharpening skills, spark inspiration and uncover new ideas during break-out sessions providing tea and lunch for the delegates. The important subjects are addressed by the expertise key note speakers with global recognition thus conferring knowledge on the new technologies and latest drift in the domain. The 16th International Conference on Emerging materials and Nanotechnology accents the prominent key note speakers, plenary speeches, young research forum, poster presentations, technical workshops and career guidance sessions.

Global Markets of Materials:

The global core materials market for composites is expected to raise from USD 1.17 Billion in 2016 to USD 1.92 Billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 8.77% from 2017 to 2022. The usage of core materials is becoming vital in wind energy, aerospace, marine, transportation, construction and other industries. The leading manufacturers of core materials are Evonik Industries AG (Germany), Armacell International S.A (Luxembourg), Plascore Incorporated (U.S.), Euro-Composites S.A (Luxembourg), Diab Group (Sweden), 3A Composites (Switzerland), Gurit Holding AG (Switzerland), Hexcel Corporation (U.S), and The Gill Corporation (U.S.). These manufacturers implemented several organic and inorganic developmental approaches.

The metamaterial market is projected to be valued at USD 4,634.8 Million by 2025, at a CAGR of 63.1% from 2017 to 2025. The increasing concern for variety in design functionalities, anti-glare coating applications, and invisibility cloak for stealth aircraft are the important aspects to drive the growth of metamaterial market.

The LED materials market is expected to reach USD 12.55 Billion by 2021, at a CAGR of 9.9% between 2016 and 2021. The rising demand of LEDs in general and automotive lighting drives the LED materials market. The base year for the study is 2015, whereas the estimated period is from 2016 to 2021.

The locomotive lightweight material market is likely to grow at a CAGR of 13.06% between 2016 and 2021 and achieve a market size of USD 110.42 Billion by 2021. The significant drivers of the market are the rigorous emission and fuel economy regulations, coupled with the targets on weight reduction, by the regulatory authorities and the rise in sales of electric vehicles in the emerging countries.

The advanced materials & technologies in electronics denotes the new or modification to the current materials & technologies to attain superior performance or efficiency. The market for the topmost advanced materials & technologies in electronics is observing high growth due to the rising end-use applications, technological advances, and the high demand of these technologies from both the industrialized and developing regions.

The silicon carbide (SiC) market size is likely to be esteemed at USD 617.4 Million by 2022, at a CAGR of 17.4% from 2017 to 2022. The features such as the capacity of SiC devices in semiconductor to perform at high temperature and high voltage and power, growing demand for motor devices, ability to decrease the overall system size, and rising applications of SiC in radio frequency (RF) devices and cellular base station are projected to drive the progress of silicon carbide market

The soft magnetic materials market is expected to achieve USD 42.14 Billion globally in 2026, at a CAGR of 8.1%, between 2016 and 2026. Soft magnetic materials offer good permeability and help in the decrease of eddy current losses. Companies are capitalizing in R&D for the growth and building of high quality soft magnetic materials. The increasing automotive end-user industry is one of the foremost drivers for the soft magnetic materials market. The soft magnetic materials are tremendously useful in several applications such as motors, transformers, and alternators.

The global 3D printing materials market is predictable to raise from USD 530.1 Million in 2016 to USD 1,409.5 Million by 2021, at a CAGR of 21.60% throughout the same period. The high progress of the market is owing to the adoption of 3D printing technology in Germany, U.S., and developing countries. The rising aerospace & defense, medical & dental, and automotive industries in these countries are driving the 3D printing materials market.

The electric vehicle plastics market is likely to raise at a CAGR of 27.82% from 2016 to 2021, to reach a market size of USD 1.49 Billion by 2021. Main drivers of this market include the favorable government policies, that leads to the advancement in the sales of electric vehicles, stringent emission regulations, demand for light weighting to achieve fuel efficiency, and the demand to improve ergonomics.

Major Material Science Associations around the Globe

American Chemical Society (ACS)

American Physical Society (APS)

The Materials Information Society (ASM International)

The Materials Research Society (MRS)

Microscopy Society of America (MSA)

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)

Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society

International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)

The American Ceramic Society (ACerS)

Major Materials Association in UK

London Materials Society (LMS)

Natural Materials Association (NMA)

Mineral Product Association (MPA)

The British Composites Society

Construction Products Association (CPA)

The Resin Flooring Association (FeRFA)

International Lead Association

Statistical analysis of materials science associations

Major Nanotechnology Associations around the Globe

EU Seventh Framework Programme (Europe)

Brazilian Nanotechnology National Laboratory (Brazil)

National Institute for Nanotechnology (Canada)

Collaborative Centre for Applied Nanotechnology (Ireland)

National Nanotechnology Center (Nanotech), Thailand

Nano medicine Roadmap Initiative (USA)

American National Standards Institute Nanotechnology Panel (ANSI-NSP)

Nano Ned (USA)

National Nanotechnology Initiative (USA)

National Center for Nano science and Technology (China)

National Centre for Nano-Structured Materials, CSIR (India)

Institute of Nano Science and Technology (India)

Iranian Nanotechnology Laboratory Network (Iran)

Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (Russia)

Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (Sri Lanka)

Statistical Analysis of nanotechnology associations

Target Audience:

Materials Scientists/Research Professors/ Nanotechnologists

Physicists/Chemists

Junior/Senior research fellows of Materials Science/ Nanotechnology

Materials Science Students

Directors of material companies

Material Engineers

Members of different Materials science associations

Members of different nanotechnology associations

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The global market analysis report in terms of graphical representation

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